[PATCH v3] powerpc/8xx: fix possible object reference leak

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at c-s.fr
Tue Mar 26 17:05:25 AEDT 2019



Le 26/03/2019 à 11:29, Peng Hao a écrit :

Could you fix your clock or clock setup ?

This emails appears to have been sent today at 11:29 (Paris Time ie 
GMT+1) allthough it is only 7am at the time being.

Christophe

> From: Wen Yang <wen.yang99 at zte.com.cn>
> 
> The call to of_find_compatible_node returns a node pointer with refcount
> incremented thus it must be explicitly decremented after the last
> usage.
> irq_domain_add_linear also calls of_node_get to increase refcount,
> so irq_domain will not be affected when it is released.
> 
> Detected by coccinelle with the following warnings:
> ./arch/powerpc/platforms/8xx/pic.c:158:1-7: ERROR: missing of_node_put; acquired a node pointer with refcount incremented on line 136, but without a corresponding object release within this function.
> 
> Fixes: a8db8cf0d894 ("irq_domain: Replace irq_alloc_host() with
> revmap-specific initializers")
> Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang99 at zte.com.cn>
> Suggested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
> Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> Reviewed-by: Peng Hao <peng.hao2 at zte.com.cn>
> Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
> Cc: Vitaly Bordug <vitb at kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> ---
> v3->v2: set ret to zero explicitly.
> v2->v1: add a Fixes tag.
> 
>   arch/powerpc/platforms/8xx/pic.c | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/8xx/pic.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/8xx/pic.c
> index 8d5a25d..9993998 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/8xx/pic.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/8xx/pic.c
> @@ -153,9 +153,9 @@ int mpc8xx_pic_init(void)
>   	if (mpc8xx_pic_host == NULL) {
>   		printk(KERN_ERR "MPC8xx PIC: failed to allocate irq host!\n");
>   		ret = -ENOMEM;
> -		goto out;
>   	}
> -	return 0;
> +
> +	ret = 0;
>   
>   out:
>   	of_node_put(np);
> 


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